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Biltmore Village
Dickens Festival
December 5-7, 2008
Hours: Friday, 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Saturday, 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm
Friday night, December 5,
will be opening night for the annual Dickens
Festival in Historic Biltmore Village. The
Festival provides three days of merriment, music and memories for
everyone.
Friday night's opening performances will
feature the All Souls Episcopal Choir performing seasonal
classics, the Montford Park Players with excerpts from
Charles Dickens’ A
Christmas Carol, plus additional on-stage vocal and
instrumental performances by local
artists. Saturday night will highlight an
on-stage concert from 5-7pm by Simple Folk, Asheville’s
well-known musical entertainers, performing traditional folk,
holiday seasonal and mountain holiday music.
Throughout the weekend, there'll be more than 30 groups of
musicians, singers, storytellers. carolers and other entertainers
performing on the stage and the streets of this picturesque village
of shops, galleries and restaurants.
Buildings in the Village are with more
than 250,000 tiny white lights, and replicas
of the original streetlights line the avenues
throughout. Shops will be open until 7 pm, with many of the
shopkeepers clothed in Victorian-era garb.
On Saturday and Sunday, there’ll be horse-drawn carriage
rides on the tree-lined Village streets and a treat for your
taste buds when you stop and see Sakshi Gantenbein, the “Chestnut
Roaster.”
For additional information call 274-8788.
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